Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Teenagers have similar
feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According
to a recent research, the most common argument between parents and teenagers
is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks.
On the one hand, parents go mad over messy rooms, clothes thrown on the floor
and their children's refusal to help with the housework.
On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame
them for dropping the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing
to do the shopping at the supermarket.
Psychologists say that communication is the most important thing in parent-child
relationships. Parents should talk to their children but at the same time they should
lend an ear to what they have to say.
Parents may scold their children when they are untidy but they should also understand
that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is
only by listening to and understanding each other that problems between parents and
children can be settled.